Stephen Chu is the new secretary of energy. It’s a stretch, but his cousin was once on Sightline’s payroll (editorial director Ellen Chu).

Oh, and Sightline’s executive director, Alan Durning, went jogging about a year ago with Lisa Brown of the American Constitution Society (not the Senate majority leader from Spokane, WA). She will be President-elect Obama’s White House staff secretary.

Update 3/13/2009: Friends of Sightline Ron Sims and Gary Locke have also been selected for the new administration (Assistance Secretary at HUD and Secretary of Commerce, respectively).

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